Material ConneXion to Present Beyond the Surface by FormsSurfaces
Material ConneXion to Present Beyond the Surface by Forms+Surfaces
Global materials consultancy Material ConneXion will present an exhibition of new products and groundbreaking materials by ... **more**
Nonobject Design Fiction Book To Be Published by MIT Press 2010
Nonobject Design Fiction Book: To Be Published by MIT Press 2010
The principal objective of the book is to stimulate thought: What is an object? Why do we desire what we desire? Why has "functionali... **more**
Bauhaus A Conceptual Model
Bauhaus: A Conceptual Model
For the first time, the three German Bauhaus institutions are uniting to present a comprehensive exhibition about the Bauhaus, the most influential school... **more**
Design September 2009 Brussels Design Festival
Design September 2009: Brussels Design Festival
Design September will take place from September 10 to October 2. Launched 2006 within the framework of the Fashion and Design year, the Design Septemb... **more**
Design in Britain Big Ideas Small Island
Design in Britain: Big Ideas, Small Island
What constitutes Britishness in British design? Luxury 'British' car brand, Bentley is German owned and its head of exterior styling is Brazilian. Apple de... **more**
Young Talents in the Running for the Rado Young Designer Award
Young Talents in the Running for the Rado Young Designer Award
The selection committee for the Rado Young Designer Award has nominated three up-and-coming Dutch design talents as finalists for the Ince... **more**
Real World Laboratory Central European Design
Real World Laboratory: Central European Design
The Real World Laboratory is presenting designs from six countries of Central Europe: Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary.... **more**
1st International Congress of Design and Innovation of Catalonia
1st International Congress of Design and Innovation of Catalonia
International Congress of Design and Innovation of Catalonia will be held by ESDi (Higher school of Design), in order to celebrate its 2... **more**
Results of the Red Dot Award Communication Design 2009
Results of the Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2009
The results of the red dot award: communication design have been finalised: 6,112 works were submitted to the competition - one of the most impor... **more**
Design Den Haag 2010-2018
Design Den Haag 2010-2018
Design Den Haag 2010-2018 will organize a total of five public events biennially about "Design and Government". Each edition will entail a collaboration between governmenta... **more**
Design Revolution 100 Products That Empower People
Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People
In January of 2008, with a thousand dollars, a laptop and an outsized conviction that design can change the world, rising San Francisco-based product... **more**
Lace in Translation an Exploration by Three Design Studios
Lace in Translation: an Exploration by Three Design Studios
This fall, The Design Center (TDC) will present Lace in Translation, a new exhibition of contemporary work that explores the intersection of ... **more**
Skinit Hires Design Industry Superstar to Head Up Design Strategy
Skinit Hires Design Industry Superstar to Head Up Design Strategy
Skinit, the leader in consumer personalization for electronic devices, today announced that it has appointed Frank Tyneski as Skinit's ... **more**
Milton Glasers SVA a Legacy of Graphic Design
Milton Glaser's SVA: a Legacy of Graphic Design
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "Milton Glaser's SVA: A Legacy of Graphic Design," a 50-year retrospective of nearly 100 works created by the legend... **more**
2010 Rebrand 100 Global Awards
2010 Rebrand 100 Global Awards
The Rebrand 100 Global Awards is the only highly respected and coveted global awards of its kind. Businesses, brand strategists, and various organizations have come to... **more**
Infographythm Create a Visual Report on Your August 09
Infographythm: Create a Visual Report on Your August 09
Infographythm, a project coordinated by CarreRotondes and the non-profit organisation Design Friends, was conceived along the same lines as the G... **more**
Illustrative 2009 Illustrative Art Festival Returns to Berlin
Illustrative 2009: Illustrative Art Festival Returns to Berlin
Illustrative 2009 will return to the creative capital to celebrate the cutting-edge works of contemporary graphic art for the fifth time
a... **more**
The Wilde Years Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture
The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture," an exhibition that celebrates designers, art dire... **more**
2nd Eurobest Advertising Festival
2nd Eurobest Advertising Festival
2nd Eurobest Advertising Festival will take place 25-27 November 2009 at the historic Beurs van Berlage in the vibrant city of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Over thre... **more**
UKYXE 09 UK Young Communications Entrepreneur Award 2009
UKYXE 09: UK Young Communications Entrepreneur Award 2009
The British Council are seeking the brightest young business talent in the communications sector. You should be entrepreneurial, aged 25-35,... **more**
Printing Types New Zealand Type Design Since 1870
Printing Types: New Zealand Type Design Since 1870
An exhibition, Printing Types: New Zealand Typeface Design Since 1870, has opened at Objectspace (8 Ponsonby Road, Auckland, New Zealand), featuring w... **more**
Young 2009 Creative Production Agency Shop Around Portays Dutch Youth Culture
Young 2009: Creative Production Agency Shop Around Portays Dutch Youth Culture
Dutch Contemporary design is universally seen as the melting pot of cutting-edge twenty-first century creativity. Some ... **more**
Winner of Greenpeace Design Awards 2009 Announced
Winner of Greenpeace Design Awards 2009 Announced
Greenpeace and the University of South Australia announced the winner of the Greenpeace Design Awards 2009. The winner is Sam Dickson whose design w... **more**
Art Directors Club Forms International Rep Network
Art Directors Club Forms International Rep Network
For the first time in its 88-year history, the Art Directors Club, the premiere organization for integrated media and the original global creative col... **more**
Satellites Mistaken for Stars
Satellites Mistaken for Stars
With Satellites Mistaken for Stars, Egger contributes to the dialog of experimental graphic design by giving us a book concerned largely with understanding the poetic pote... **more**
REX Design Awarded by Communication Arts Magazine
REX Design Awarded by Communication Arts Magazine
The design developed for tweens' books "Leituras Descoladas" collection ("Cool Readings" collection), has rendered another international award for REX ... **more**
Design Museum and Conran Octopus Present New Series of Design Books
Design Museum and Conran Octopus Present New Series of Design Books
Everything around us in designed and the word "design" has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we know about i... **more**
Hyperbodies Cuerpos Emergentes
Hyperbodies: Cuerpos Emergentes
The Istituto Europeo di Design of Barcelona has presented in its future headquarter, the former Macson factory, the 5th edition of its fashion show that this year carrie... **more**
Uncle an Integrated Agency on the Up
Uncle: an Integrated Agency on the Up
Creative agency Uncle have played a part in helping Encyclopaedia Britannica secure the number 10 place in the coveted 2009/10 Superbrands UK Consumer Index. Un... **more**
Dona Wong SiegelGale Hires Strategy Director of Information Design
Dona Wong: Siegel+Gale Hires Strategy Director of Information Design
Global strategic branding firm Siegel+Gale, the pioneer in simplifying complex customer communications, announced today the appointm... **more**
Duffy A Designed Life
Duffy: A Designed Life
Duffy & Partners design firm just launched "A Designed Life," as part of their Duffy 25 Years piece. The slide show captures a day in the life of Duffy's logos - presenting ho... **more**
REX Design Develops Packaging Design for Premium Powder Detergent to Launch in Argentina
REX Design Develops Packaging Design for Premium Powder Detergent to Launch in Argentina
The brazilian agency has designed the packaging for the new range of Skip powder detergent to be launch in Argen... **more**
Prince Philip Designers Prize Announces Contenders for 50th Anniversary Year
Prince Philip Designers Prize Announces Contenders for 50th Anniversary Year
The countdown to naming the winner of the 2009 Prince Philip Designers Prize, awarded annually to recognize a lifetime contr... **more**
UCB and Its Design Partners OXO and Smart Design Win 2009 Red Dot Communication Design
UCB and Its Design Partners, OXO and Smart Design, Win 2009 Red Dot: Communication Design
UCB announced today that the newly designed Cimzia packaging was honoured with a "red dot communication design"... **more**
The Boi Leda Desk Lamps
The Boi & Leda Desk Lamps
David Weeks, known for his distinctive lighting products, introduces two new desk lamps: the Boi Desk Lamp and the Leda Desk Lamp. The Boi Desk Lamp takes its cue from pop ... **more**
PDT Joins Continua Health Alliance
PDT Joins Continua Health Alliance
Product Development Technologies (PDT) announced that it has joined Continua Health Alliance, a non-profit, open industry alliance of the finest healthcare and techno... **more**
Material Stories Newsletter 2 Power
Material Stories Newsletter #2: Power
What does power have to do with materials? Everything! The second Get Inspired newsletter is all about "Power" and takes us all over the world from solar powere... **more**
The Next Generation PerkinsAPH Brailler Wins Acclaim
The Next Generation Perkins/APH Brailler Wins Acclaim
Product Development Technologies (PDT), Perkins Products and the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) have been honored in the 2009 Internat... **more**
Newdealdesign Recognized with Four International Design Excellence Awards
Newdealdesign Recognized with Four International Design Excellence Awards
NewDealDesign, the San Francisco creative agency providing strategic industrial design, interaction design and brand identity s... **more**
Of Dreams and Cities Architecture and Film
Of Dreams and Cities: Architecture and Film
To mark the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the BFI will in November 2009 present Of Dreams and Cities... **more**
Enterprise Designers Present Interior of Spaceplane
Enterprise: Designers Present Interior of Spaceplane
The Swiss-Italian design team "Architecture and Vision" presents first interior designs of the "Enterprise". The "Enterprise" is a rocket plane, ... **more**
MercuryHouseOne at the 53rd Biennale of Venice
MercuryHouseOne at the 53rd Biennale of Venice
MercuryHouseOne by Architecture and Vision will be presented on September 2, 2009, during the 53rd Art Exhibition, Biennale of Venice, on San Servolo isla... **more**
Christine Cerqueira Gaspar CUP Appoints New Executive Director
Christine Cerqueira Gaspar: CUP Appoints New Executive Director
The Board of Directors and staff of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization that uses the power of d... **more**
Interior Design Between the Wars
Interior Design Between the Wars
The Imperial Furniture Collection holds one of the key works of Viennese interior design around 1930: the apartment of the ceramic artist Lucie Rie, designed by Ernst P... **more**
RIBA Presidents Awards for Research 2009 Shortlist Announced
RIBA President's Awards for Research 2009 Shortlist Announced
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) today announces the shortlist for the annual RIBA President's Awards for Research 2009, wh... **more**
Bangkok Rising Construction to Begin on Ole Scheeren OMAs MahaNakhon
Bangkok Rising: Construction to Begin on Ole Scheeren / OMA's MahaNakhon
In the 125 years since William Le Baron Jenney's ten-storey Home Insurance Building in Chicago became the world's first skyscrap... **more**
Rafael Vinoly Architects Complete East Wing at Cleveland Museum of Modern Art
Rafael Vinoly Architects Complete East Wing at Cleveland Museum of Modern Art
Rafael Vinoly Architects has designed the new East Wing at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), Ohio, which opened to the pub... **more**
ShoWare Center Nations First Event Center to Achieve LEED Gold-NC Rating
ShoWare Center Nation's First Event Center to Achieve LEED Gold-NC Rating
The City of Kent, Washington now boasts one of the greenest event centers in the country. The ShoWare Center-a 154,000-squar... **more**
Rising Tides Competition Announces Six Winners
Rising Tides Competition Announces Six Winners
BCDC announced the winners of the Rising Tides competition. Six winners will share a total prize of $25,000. The selection of six winners was an une... **more**
Rafael Vinoly Architects Expansion of Brooklyn Childrens Museum Awarded LEED Silver
Rafael Vinoly Architects Expansion of Brooklyn Children's Museum Awarded LEED Silver
Rafael Vinoly Architects' expansion of the Brooklyn Children's Museum, located at the intersection of Brooklyn Avenu... **more**
Leo a Daly Announces Strategic Association with EGA Architects
Leo a Daly Announces Strategic Association with EGA Architects
International architecture, planning, engineering, interior design and program management firm LEO A DALY announces an association with EG... **more**
Design Driven: Maserati Competition Announces Winners
As the only automaker in the luxury class that utilizes a master design firm - legendary Pininfarina - Maserati has found there is an affinity betw... **more**
The 1st International Conference in Interactive Art Design
The 1st International Conference in Interactive Art & Design
Information technology has brought great changes to human life. Digital media has influenced every aspect of society, culture and entertainm... **more**
FITC Mobile A Mobile Development Conference
FITC Mobile: A Mobile Development Conference
FITC Mobile brings together the leaders in mobile design and development for a two-day conference, September 13 - 14, 2009, at the Metro Toronto Convention ... **more**
IIID Traffic Transport 2009
IIID Traffic & Transport 2009
From 10 to 11 September, 23 speakers from nine countries will share their expertise and knowledge with decision makers, transportation providers, interest groups, informat... **more**
Boulder Digital Works Opens Its Doors
Boulder Digital Works Opens It's Doors
Boulder Digital Works (BDW) is a new project-based learning initiative focused on developing digital leaders and entrepreneurs. BDW is the first program in the... **more**
Web Industry Leaders Happy Cog and Airbag Industries Merge
Web Industry Leaders Happy Cog and Airbag Industries Merge
Happy Cog announced the merger of Happy Cog and Airbag Industries. Effective today, the two leading and influential web design firms have f... **more**
The Whitehouse Adds Editor Paul Hardcastle to US Roster
The Whitehouse Adds Editor Paul Hardcastle to US Roster
On the heels of his Cannes Lions Grand Prix win for Phillips "Carousel," editor Paul Hardcastle joins The Whitehouse, Bicoastal / Chicago / Londo... **more**
Manic Signs Creative Director Fran Roberts
Manic Signs Creative Director Fran Roberts
NYC based visual effects/conceptual design company, Manic has signed Creative Director Fran Roberts as part of its continued growth as a leading creative bran... **more**
th2ng Snaps Up Jake Knowles
th2ng Snaps Up Jake Knowles
th2ng has added award-winning live action director Jake Knowles to its growing roster of emerging and established talent. Knowles spent four years as senior director for ... **more**
Royale Turns Two Celebrates Studio Defining Culture
Royale Turns Two, Celebrates Studio Defining Culture
July 2009 marks the 2nd anniversary of LA-based motion design and production studio Royale. Drawing on 20+ years collective experience, Partners ... **more**
Bent Signs Stop-Motion Heavy Hitter Ken Lidster
Bent Signs Stop-Motion Heavy Hitter Ken Lidster
The Portland, Oregon-based production company and creative laboratory Bent Image Lab is further expanding its roster with the recent signing of veteran a... **more**
72andSunny Taps Yahoos Yau to Expand Digital Capabilities
72andSunny Taps Yahoo's' Yau to Expand Digital Capabilities
72andSunny, the creative powerhouse for worldwide brands such as Nike, Discovery Channel, 2K Sports and Quiksilver, announced today the appoi... **more**
Perkins Eastman Awarded Indian School of Business Campus
Perkins Eastman Awarded Indian School of Business Campus
The New York office of international design and architecture firm Perkins Eastman has been commissioned by the Indian School of Business for a 7... **more**
New SAW VI Blood Drive Poster
New SAW VI Blood Drive Poster
Every year, Lionsgate gets the blood pumping for its new SAW film with the SAW "Give 'Til It Hurts" blood drive, benefiting the Red Cross. As part of that tradition, th... **more**
Polaroid Exp091009
Polaroid: Exp.09.10.09
Early last year, the Polaroid Corporation ceased producing its iconic film. The 9th October 2009 will see the final "Use by" or Expiration date of the last batch of Polaroid f... **more**
Parsons Presents MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition
Parsons The New School for Design will present its annual exhibition of MFA Photography thesis work in the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries of the ... **more**
Paper Tear Fold Rip Crease Cut
Paper: Tear, Fold, Rip, Crease, Cut
Paper: Tear, Fold, Rip, Crease, Cut shines a light on the beautiful world of paper in art, fashion and design. From the traditional art of origami and paper cutti... **more**
Frank Auerbach London Building Sites 1952-62
Frank Auerbach: London Building Sites, 1952-62
This will be the first exhibition to bring together the seminal group of paintings of London building sites by Frank Auerbach (born 1931). These extrao... **more**
ShContemporary09 Shanghai in Art
ShContemporary09 : Shanghai in Art
ShContemporary, Asia's most dynamic and international contemporary art fair, will launch its third edition on September 9, 2009 with a new artistic direction and init... **more**
amberConference
amberConference
The first international amberConference will be held in conjunction with the amber'09 Art and Technology Festival on the 7th and 8th of November 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. The confere... **more**
International Festival of Scenic Arts
International Festival of Scenic Arts
The prestigious V&A museum in London has been chosen to host the launch of the first edition of the International Festival of Scenic Arts, an international event c... **more**
James Tissot The Life of Christ
James Tissot: The Life of Christ
The exhibition James Tissot: "The Life of Christ" will include 124 watercolors selected from a set of 350 that depict detailed scenes from the New Testament, from befor... **more**
New Exhibit at San Francisco Museum of CraftDesign
New Exhibit at San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design
The San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design presents three concurrent exhibits July 24 through October 4, 2009 at its 550 Sutter Street location in San ... **more**
Design Studies A Reader
Design Studies: A Reader
Design Studies: A Reader, edited by Hazel Clark and David Brody, Berg, 2009, is a new publication aimed at those who want to understand the many complex roles of design, includ... **more**
Sollos Shining Corona Highlights Home and Office
Sollos: Shining Corona Highlights Home and Office
Technical expertise and a typical German, Bauhaus-inspired visual vocabulary are the trademarks of idee.design.licht. The Saxon lighting manufactory... **more**
Rough Construction Chair by Kassen
Rough Construction Chair by Kassen
Rough Construction Chair started off as a kind of exploration that turned into a pretty nice little chair and stool. Like most things in the lumber yard, steel fra... **more**
2nd Round for 2nd Floor Duravit Offers New Possibilities for Room Division
2nd Round for 2nd Floor: Duravit Offers New Possibilities for Room Division
Duravit launched the 2nd floor collection, designed in collaboration with Sieger Design, in 2006. Inspired by the architec... **more**
Design, Complexity, and Change: DMI Design / Management Annual 34
In the midst of widespread turmoil, there are thought leaders and practitioners-in industry, government and academia-who are demonstrat... **more**
California Car Design: Local Style, Global Influence
At a time when the world's automakers are frantically trying to survive an economic downturn while simultaneously inventing new technologies to make... **more**
A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business
For the first time, Hartmut Esslinger, internationally acclaimed designer and founder of frog design, inc., reveals the secrets to ... **more**
Material ConneXion Presents I.D. Magazine's Annual Design Review Exhibition
New York-based global materials consultancy Material ConneXion announced that an exhibition of winners from I.D. magazine... **more**
Design and Society: Call for Change in Design Education
Design education is not keeping pace with the growing demand for new design professionals able to operate in a range of service-based environment... **more**
The Case for Export: New Design Victoria Publication
A new publication for Victorian designers, The Case for Export, developed by Design Victoria in collaboration with Austrade, Australian Institute of... **more**
Belgrade Design Week 2009: Speed2
From May 25th to 31st, Belgrade Design Week for the fourth time transformed Belgrade into a platform for world's design scene, an inspiring place for international cre... **more**
Banat Acrobat: The New Patented Toothbrush Designed by Kilit Tasi Design
Designed by Kilit Tasi Design Team under the leadership of Kunter Sekercioglu, the new Banat "Acrobat" toothbrush has... **more**
Buriki: Japanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American Automobile
This unique and charming exhibition, the first of its kind at any U.S. arts institution, charts the achievements of the Japanese... **more**
First Lady Michelle Obama Celebrates the National Design Awards with Public Programs
The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum today announced First Lady Michelle Obama will celebrate the... **more**
Design to Make Seoul a Global City
For Seoul City, design is leverage not only to upgrade its appearance but also innovate its administration. And Chung Kyung-won, the chief design officer... **more**
RCA Design Interactions Show 2009
Design Interactions Department's show at the Royal College of Art explores new roles, contexts and approaches for design in relation to the social, cultural and ethica... **more**
New AIGA Leadership Joins National Board of Directors: Debbie Millman Assumes Presidency
The newly elected board of directors for AIGA, the professional association for design, begins its term today. ... **more**
CLIO Healthcare Awards 2009
The first-ever CLIO Healthcare Awards is now accepting online entry submissions. The CLIO Healthcare Awards will honor creative excellence and innovation in advertising a... **more**
Colors of Money: an Exhibition About Money by Fabrica and Colors Magazine
Fabrica, the Benetton communication research center, has been invited by the cultural space CarreRotondes in Luxemburg to prese... **more**
The Outer Limits: Transport for London Poster Competition
Transport for London (TfL) is steeped in a history of innovative design which was built on the convictions of one man, Frank Pick whose energy ... **more**
Images 34: the Best of British Contemporary Illustration 2010
Images is the showcase for the best of contemporary British illustration. Now in its 34th year, Images is the only independent, jury-sel... **more**
David Droga to Deliver Seminar at Spikes Asia 2009
David Droga, the Founder and Creative Chairman of Droga5, will present a seminar at this year's Spikes Asia Festival. Regarded as one of the most s... **more**
TypeCon2009: Rhythm
TypeCon2009 explores type for the screen, Dutch design, type in motion, advertising typography, the new life of wood type, and much more. Special events include the premiere of "... **more**
Request for Submissions: The Good Design Book
Designer and writer Christopher Simmons (of MINE) is working on a new book about designing for the greater good. There is an open call for submissions t... **more**
Xin: Icograda World Design Congress Beijing 2009
Hosted by the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), the biennial Icograda World Design Congress will be held in Beijing, China for the first time. Fro... **more**
AIGA Nashville Gives Out Inaugural Awards
AIGA Nashville announced its inaugural class of winners for the CASE awards on Saturday. More than 125 awards were given for Web, motion, print, identity, i... **more**
David Gibson Announced as 2009 SEGD Fellow
The Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) announced David Gibson as the 2009 SEGD Fellow. Co-founder and managing principal of Two Twelve Associa... **more**
Bertrand Cesvet: IIDEX Announces 2009 Business Keynote
As one of the key strategists behind Cirque du Soleil's marketing machine, Bertrand Cesvet knows a thing or two about breaking barriers and mergin... **more**
Madeleine Vionnet: Puriste de la Mode
Les Arts Decoratifs is devoting a major exhibition to Madeleine Vionnet. In 1952, the couturiere donated 22 dresses, 750 dress patterns and 75 photo albums to L... **more**
Spotlight on Young Hong Kong Fashion Designers in Taiwan
The latest collections of six young Hong Kong fashion designers - Mandy Cheng, Chow Tan Tan, Spy Henry Lau, Hin Lee, DoDo Leung and Harrison Won... **more**
Harris Tweed Hebrides is Scotland's Textile Brand of the Year
Harris Tweed Hebrides has won recognition from fashion leaders for the style and quality of its famous fabric. The Company, based on the... **more**
White House Calls on AIGA Members to Promote Community Service
The White House and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have requested AIGA members' help in promoting public service opportunities ... **more**
Obama for America Campaign Wins Top Prizes in Cannes
The advertising and marketing campaign that helped propel Barack Obama into the White House has been honored with the two top prizes - the Titanium ... **more**
CB'a Design Solutions Designed the Packaging of Nirvana's Ice-cream
The European branding and design network CB'a Design Solutions created the naming, branding and packaging design for the innovative r... **more**
Talking Design: Design and Progressive Change
The Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) Queensland is hosting a Talking Design Public Lecture supported by the Queensland Government through Arts ... **more**
Designfest 2009
The third edition of the International Design Festival, Designfest '09, will be held in Expo Guadalajara from the 15th to the 17th of October 2009. This event will gather prominent p... **more**
PULSE Issue 7
The newest issue of PULSE is now available. In this issue, PDT talks about change: the discovery of change, including a few suggestions that can help you expand your "lifesphere", and ... **more**
The Red Dot Design Yearbook 2009/2010
Once again, the award-winning products from the red dot design award are presented this year in a two-volume book set - entitled "living" and "doing". The "livi... **more**
Design and Technology Teams Win National Challenge to Design Crime Proof Mobile Phones
Design and technology experts attend the Mobile Phone Security Challenge networking event, held at the Design Coun... **more**
Coventry University' Budding Car Designers Given Ultimate Teaching Aid
When Universities talk about the use of teaching aids to assist with students' studies, they do not usually include a brand new ca... **more**
Make It Right Architects Introduce Pioneering Duplex Designs
The green, affordable multi-family home designs of fourteen acclaimed local, national and international architects were released today by Ma... **more**
Harry Rich: New RIBA Chief Executive
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has appointed Harry Rich as its new Chief Executive. He will take up his new post in October 2009. Harry join... **more**
Remembering Jan Kaplicky: Architect of the Future
Jan Kaplicky, who died earlier this year aged 71, was the Czech architect responsible for some of the most remarkable buildings that Britain has ever s... **more**
Herning Museum of Contemporary Art Designed by Steven Holl Architects
Herning Museum of Contemporary Art will open to the public on September 9, 2009 uniting three distinct cultural institutions: the H... **more**
XERO Project Wins Re:Vision Design Competition for Zero-Energy Development in Downtown Dallas
XERO Project, a proposal for a new urban agriculture district and zero-energy, mixed-use development in dow... **more**
LandWorks Professional Center: A New and Better Idea for Real Estate
Most people know that poor air circulation and insufficient light- levels in the office can lead to chronic fatigue. But the trad... **more**
IGCC: Safe and Sustainable by the Book
The International Code Council launched its International Green Construction Code (IGCC) initiative, which will reduce energy usage and the carbon footprint of co... **more**
Marmol Radziner Prefab Teams Up with Dwell Magazine's Dwell Homes Collection
A new partnership between award-winning architects Marmol Radziner Prefab and Dwell magazine, has spawned a dynamic series o... **more**
Are We Building for the Development of Greed or for Generosity?
Designboost released the six last Miniboost interviews which incude Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec, James Irvine, Kristina Dryza, Patricia Ur... **more**
Bishop Edward King Chapel: Shortlist Announced
The competition to design a new College Chapel in Oxfordshire received an outstanding response with over 126 expressions of interest received from archite... **more**
RIBA Trust Presents Exhibition on Valerio Olgiati
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced an exhibition celebrating Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati, examining seven of his projects f... **more**
Cepezed Envisions Modern Colosseum
The Delft, The Netherlands-based cepezed architects have developed plans for a large temporary theatre on the Malieveld in The Hague, a large strech of lawn measuring... **more**
Dexigner iPhone Application Now Available on Apple App Store
Dexigner released the new Dexigner app for iPhone and iPod touch, an ideal companion for designers and design lovers. The application giv... **more**
DUCK's Jan Chen Creates Surreal Short Promoting Real Protection
DUCK Director Jan Chen just released a zany animated short featuring a communal home of anthropomorphic condoms promoting safe sex as a u... **more**
Purple Hunt: Tronic Studio Gives Pixels Life for Yahoo Philippines
A tiny 3D purple pixel appears at the far edge of vision, then tumbles maniacally toward the viewer while issuing a Yahoo- esque yodel... **more**
Award-Winning Director Marc Forster Teams With James Nelson On New Swiss Air Film
Flying - or modern day travel via air - evokes a variety of images but certainly rarely as beautiful or sublime as what... **more**
21Boom Creates Show Open, Title Design for MTV's It's On With Alexa Chung
MTV has tapped 21Boom, the Manhattan-based creative and marketing services shop, to design and produce a show open and complete... **more**
Nathan Love Creates Blood Trail
Creative studio Nathan Love recently completed "Blood Trail," a three-minute animated trailer that promotes writer Matt Cochran's screenplay of the same name. Perspec... **more**
Animation: Exhibition Explores Six Areas of Animation
Animation is an exhibit about the science behind the art of animation. Visitors explore the process of animation from concept to finished produc... **more**
Back Alley Films' Pete Meyer Directs Spot for Water Partners International
Spoofing the chic, sophisticated marketing of bottled water in the US, non-profit Water Partners International has unveiled a ... **more**
Director Tarsem Teams Up with Zoic Studios to Converge Fantasy and Reality
The Mountain Dew / World of Warcraft cross-promotional spot brought together some all-star players to handle these iconic bran... **more**
Blurb Introduces PDF to Book: Delivering New Levels of Creative Control
Blurb, the creative publishing and marketing platform that enables anyone to design, publish, share and sell bookstore-quality bo... **more**
Blind Inks UK/Europe Deal with Jelly
Bicoastal production/design studio Blind expands across the Atlantic with new representation by multidisciplinary production collective jelly, London. The newly ... **more**
Festival of Lively Architecture 2009 in Montpellier
The 4th Festival of Lively Architecture organized by Association Champ Libre, took place in Montpellier from June 18th-21st 2009. Architects from ... **more**
African Elegance: Renowned Artist Tunde Owolabi Brings African Elegance to London
Songhai Creative presents African artist Tunde Owolabi's "African Elegance" the first major exhibition of new paintings... **more**
The Rediscovery of Sretenkas
This exhibition features the architectural development for the urban district of the Moscow quarter "Sretenka". On the basis of the results of an urban study by Mosproje... **more**
L.A. in Wien / Wien in L.A.
The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) announced L.A. in Wien / Wien in L.A, an exhibition featuring works by Hitoshi Abe, Peter Cook, Zaha Hadid, Thom ... **more**
Buildings Seeking LEED to Provide Performance Data
As part of LEED v3, the latest version of the U.S. Green Building Council's program for green building design, construction, operations and maintenanc... **more**
Bennetts Associates' Potterrow Building: an Innovative Educational and Office Building
Bennetts Associates' award-winning Potterrow development has created an innovative learning environment for Edinbu... **more**
Winner of London School of Economics New Students' Centre Competition Announced
Dublin based practice O'Donnell & Tuomey Architects have been chosen as the winners of the competition to design a new St... **more**
Aesthetics of Crossing: Land Ports of Entry / Citizenship by Design
Van Alen Institute announced the upcoming exhibition Aesthetics of Crossing, on view at the Institute from Wednesday, July 1 - Friday... **more**
Skidaway Institute of Oceanography Expands Scope of Research With New Building
Scientists at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography earlier this month occupied a new facility that enables them to expan... **more**
Serie Platone by Prandina
Serie Platone is a new family of architectural wall lamps. An immediate and discrete illuminating object whose design in characterized by a light curve separating it... **more**
Down to Earth Lighting
A team of industrial design students from Swinburne University have taken an invention from a concept to a finished product. Inventor Bradley Wein approached the students with... **more**
Electrolux Wins Australian Award for Sustainable Design
The Electrolux 2008 refrigeration collection in Australia has won the 2009 Award for Excellence in Sustainable Design in Standards... **more**
KeepCup: Hot Coffee, Cool Planet
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Material ConneXion to Present Beyond the Surface by Forms+Surfaces
Global materials consultancy Material ConneXion will present an exhibition of new products and groundbreaking materials by ...
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Nonobject Design Fiction Book: To Be Published by MIT Press 2010
The principal objective of the book is to stimulate thought: What is an object? Why do we desire what we desire? Why has "functionali...
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Bauhaus: A Conceptual Model
For the first time, the three German Bauhaus institutions are uniting to present a comprehensive exhibition about the Bauhaus, the most influential school...
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Design September 2009: Brussels Design Festival
Design September will take place from September 10 to October 2. Launched 2006 within the framework of the Fashion and Design year, the Design Septemb...
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Design in Britain: Big Ideas, Small Island
What constitutes Britishness in British design? Luxury 'British' car brand, Bentley is German owned and its head of exterior styling is Brazilian. Apple de...
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Young Talents in the Running for the Rado Young Designer Award
The selection committee for the Rado Young Designer Award has nominated three up-and-coming Dutch design talents as finalists for the Ince...
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Real World Laboratory: Central European Design
The Real World Laboratory is presenting designs from six countries of Central Europe: Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary....
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1st International Congress of Design and Innovation of Catalonia
International Congress of Design and Innovation of Catalonia will be held by ESDi (Higher school of Design), in order to celebrate its 2...
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Results of the Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2009
The results of the red dot award: communication design have been finalised: 6,112 works were submitted to the competition - one of the most impor...
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Design Den Haag 2010-2018
Design Den Haag 2010-2018 will organize a total of five public events biennially about "Design and Government". Each edition will entail a collaboration between governmenta...
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Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People
In January of 2008, with a thousand dollars, a laptop and an outsized conviction that design can change the world, rising San Francisco-based product...
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Lace in Translation: an Exploration by Three Design Studios
This fall, The Design Center (TDC) will present Lace in Translation, a new exhibition of contemporary work that explores the intersection of ...
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Skinit Hires Design Industry Superstar to Head Up Design Strategy
Skinit, the leader in consumer personalization for electronic devices, today announced that it has appointed Frank Tyneski as Skinit's ...
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Milton Glaser's SVA: a Legacy of Graphic Design
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "Milton Glaser's SVA: A Legacy of Graphic Design," a 50-year retrospective of nearly 100 works created by the legend...
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2010 Rebrand 100 Global Awards
The Rebrand 100 Global Awards is the only highly respected and coveted global awards of its kind. Businesses, brand strategists, and various organizations have come to...
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Infographythm: Create a Visual Report on Your August 09
Infographythm, a project coordinated by CarreRotondes and the non-profit organisation Design Friends, was conceived along the same lines as the G...
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Illustrative 2009: Illustrative Art Festival Returns to Berlin
Illustrative 2009 will return to the creative capital to celebrate the cutting-edge works of contemporary graphic art for the fifth time
a...
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The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture," an exhibition that celebrates designers, art dire...
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2nd Eurobest Advertising Festival
2nd Eurobest Advertising Festival will take place 25-27 November 2009 at the historic Beurs van Berlage in the vibrant city of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Over thre...
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UKYXE 09: UK Young Communications Entrepreneur Award 2009
The British Council are seeking the brightest young business talent in the communications sector. You should be entrepreneurial, aged 25-35,...
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Printing Types: New Zealand Type Design Since 1870
An exhibition, Printing Types: New Zealand Typeface Design Since 1870, has opened at Objectspace (8 Ponsonby Road, Auckland, New Zealand), featuring w...
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Young 2009: Creative Production Agency Shop Around Portays Dutch Youth Culture
Dutch Contemporary design is universally seen as the melting pot of cutting-edge twenty-first century creativity. Some ...
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Winner of Greenpeace Design Awards 2009 Announced
Greenpeace and the University of South Australia announced the winner of the Greenpeace Design Awards 2009. The winner is Sam Dickson whose design w...
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Art Directors Club Forms International Rep Network
For the first time in its 88-year history, the Art Directors Club, the premiere organization for integrated media and the original global creative col...
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Satellites Mistaken for Stars
With Satellites Mistaken for Stars, Egger contributes to the dialog of experimental graphic design by giving us a book concerned largely with understanding the poetic pote...
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REX Design Awarded by Communication Arts Magazine
The design developed for tweens' books "Leituras Descoladas" collection ("Cool Readings" collection), has rendered another international award for REX ...
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Design Museum and Conran Octopus Present New Series of Design Books
Everything around us in designed and the word "design" has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we know about i...
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Hyperbodies: Cuerpos Emergentes
The Istituto Europeo di Design of Barcelona has presented in its future headquarter, the former Macson factory, the 5th edition of its fashion show that this year carrie...
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Uncle: an Integrated Agency on the Up
Creative agency Uncle have played a part in helping Encyclopaedia Britannica secure the number 10 place in the coveted 2009/10 Superbrands UK Consumer Index. Un...
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Dona Wong: Siegel+Gale Hires Strategy Director of Information Design
Global strategic branding firm Siegel+Gale, the pioneer in simplifying complex customer communications, announced today the appointm...
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Duffy: A Designed Life
Duffy & Partners design firm just launched "A Designed Life," as part of their Duffy 25 Years piece. The slide show captures a day in the life of Duffy's logos - presenting ho...
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REX Design Develops Packaging Design for Premium Powder Detergent to Launch in Argentina
The brazilian agency has designed the packaging for the new range of Skip powder detergent to be launch in Argen...
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Prince Philip Designers Prize Announces Contenders for 50th Anniversary Year
The countdown to naming the winner of the 2009 Prince Philip Designers Prize, awarded annually to recognize a lifetime contr...
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UCB and Its Design Partners, OXO and Smart Design, Win 2009 Red Dot: Communication Design
UCB announced today that the newly designed Cimzia packaging was honoured with a "red dot communication design"...
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The Boi & Leda Desk Lamps
David Weeks, known for his distinctive lighting products, introduces two new desk lamps: the Boi Desk Lamp and the Leda Desk Lamp. The Boi Desk Lamp takes its cue from pop ...
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PDT Joins Continua Health Alliance
Product Development Technologies (PDT) announced that it has joined Continua Health Alliance, a non-profit, open industry alliance of the finest healthcare and techno...
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Material Stories Newsletter #2: Power
What does power have to do with materials? Everything! The second Get Inspired newsletter is all about "Power" and takes us all over the world from solar powere...
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The Next Generation Perkins/APH Brailler Wins Acclaim
Product Development Technologies (PDT), Perkins Products and the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) have been honored in the 2009 Internat...
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Newdealdesign Recognized with Four International Design Excellence Awards
NewDealDesign, the San Francisco creative agency providing strategic industrial design, interaction design and brand identity s...
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Of Dreams and Cities: Architecture and Film
To mark the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the BFI will in November 2009 present Of Dreams and Cities...
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Enterprise: Designers Present Interior of Spaceplane
The Swiss-Italian design team "Architecture and Vision" presents first interior designs of the "Enterprise". The "Enterprise" is a rocket plane, ...
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MercuryHouseOne at the 53rd Biennale of Venice
MercuryHouseOne by Architecture and Vision will be presented on September 2, 2009, during the 53rd Art Exhibition, Biennale of Venice, on San Servolo isla...
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Christine Cerqueira Gaspar: CUP Appoints New Executive Director
The Board of Directors and staff of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization that uses the power of d...
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Interior Design Between the Wars
The Imperial Furniture Collection holds one of the key works of Viennese interior design around 1930: the apartment of the ceramic artist Lucie Rie, designed by Ernst P...
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RIBA President's Awards for Research 2009 Shortlist Announced
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) today announces the shortlist for the annual RIBA President's Awards for Research 2009, wh...
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Bangkok Rising: Construction to Begin on Ole Scheeren / OMA's MahaNakhon
In the 125 years since William Le Baron Jenney's ten-storey Home Insurance Building in Chicago became the world's first skyscrap...
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Rafael Vinoly Architects Complete East Wing at Cleveland Museum of Modern Art
Rafael Vinoly Architects has designed the new East Wing at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), Ohio, which opened to the pub...
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ShoWare Center Nation's First Event Center to Achieve LEED Gold-NC Rating
The City of Kent, Washington now boasts one of the greenest event centers in the country. The ShoWare Center-a 154,000-squar...
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Rising Tides Competition Announces Six Winners
BCDC announced the winners of the Rising Tides competition. Six winners will share a total prize of $25,000. The selection of six winners was an une...
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Rafael Vinoly Architects Expansion of Brooklyn Children's Museum Awarded LEED Silver
Rafael Vinoly Architects' expansion of the Brooklyn Children's Museum, located at the intersection of Brooklyn Avenu...
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Leo a Daly Announces Strategic Association with EGA Architects
International architecture, planning, engineering, interior design and program management firm LEO A DALY announces an association with EG...
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Design Driven: Maserati Competition Announces Winners
As the only automaker in the luxury class that utilizes a master design firm - legendary Pininfarina - Maserati has found there is an affinity betw...
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The 1st International Conference in Interactive Art & Design
Information technology has brought great changes to human life. Digital media has influenced every aspect of society, culture and entertainm...
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FITC Mobile: A Mobile Development Conference
FITC Mobile brings together the leaders in mobile design and development for a two-day conference, September 13 - 14, 2009, at the Metro Toronto Convention ...
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IIID Traffic & Transport 2009
From 10 to 11 September, 23 speakers from nine countries will share their expertise and knowledge with decision makers, transportation providers, interest groups, informat...
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Boulder Digital Works Opens It's Doors
Boulder Digital Works (BDW) is a new project-based learning initiative focused on developing digital leaders and entrepreneurs. BDW is the first program in the...
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Web Industry Leaders Happy Cog and Airbag Industries Merge
Happy Cog announced the merger of Happy Cog and Airbag Industries. Effective today, the two leading and influential web design firms have f...
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The Whitehouse Adds Editor Paul Hardcastle to US Roster
On the heels of his Cannes Lions Grand Prix win for Phillips "Carousel," editor Paul Hardcastle joins The Whitehouse, Bicoastal / Chicago / Londo...
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Manic Signs Creative Director Fran Roberts
NYC based visual effects/conceptual design company, Manic has signed Creative Director Fran Roberts as part of its continued growth as a leading creative bran...
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th2ng Snaps Up Jake Knowles
th2ng has added award-winning live action director Jake Knowles to its growing roster of emerging and established talent. Knowles spent four years as senior director for ...
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Royale Turns Two, Celebrates Studio Defining Culture
July 2009 marks the 2nd anniversary of LA-based motion design and production studio Royale. Drawing on 20+ years collective experience, Partners ...
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Bent Signs Stop-Motion Heavy Hitter Ken Lidster
The Portland, Oregon-based production company and creative laboratory Bent Image Lab is further expanding its roster with the recent signing of veteran a...
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72andSunny Taps Yahoo's' Yau to Expand Digital Capabilities
72andSunny, the creative powerhouse for worldwide brands such as Nike, Discovery Channel, 2K Sports and Quiksilver, announced today the appoi...
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Perkins Eastman Awarded Indian School of Business Campus
The New York office of international design and architecture firm Perkins Eastman has been commissioned by the Indian School of Business for a 7...
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New SAW VI Blood Drive Poster
Every year, Lionsgate gets the blood pumping for its new SAW film with the SAW "Give 'Til It Hurts" blood drive, benefiting the Red Cross. As part of that tradition, th...
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Polaroid: Exp.09.10.09
Early last year, the Polaroid Corporation ceased producing its iconic film. The 9th October 2009 will see the final "Use by" or Expiration date of the last batch of Polaroid f...
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Parsons Presents MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition
Parsons The New School for Design will present its annual exhibition of MFA Photography thesis work in the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries of the ...
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Paper: Tear, Fold, Rip, Crease, Cut
Paper: Tear, Fold, Rip, Crease, Cut shines a light on the beautiful world of paper in art, fashion and design. From the traditional art of origami and paper cutti...
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Frank Auerbach: London Building Sites, 1952-62
This will be the first exhibition to bring together the seminal group of paintings of London building sites by Frank Auerbach (born 1931). These extrao...
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ShContemporary09 : Shanghai in Art
ShContemporary, Asia's most dynamic and international contemporary art fair, will launch its third edition on September 9, 2009 with a new artistic direction and init...
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amberConference
The first international amberConference will be held in conjunction with the amber'09 Art and Technology Festival on the 7th and 8th of November 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. The confere...
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International Festival of Scenic Arts
The prestigious V&A museum in London has been chosen to host the launch of the first edition of the International Festival of Scenic Arts, an international event c...
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James Tissot: The Life of Christ
The exhibition James Tissot: "The Life of Christ" will include 124 watercolors selected from a set of 350 that depict detailed scenes from the New Testament, from befor...
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New Exhibit at San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design
The San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design presents three concurrent exhibits July 24 through October 4, 2009 at its 550 Sutter Street location in San ...
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Design Studies: A Reader
Design Studies: A Reader, edited by Hazel Clark and David Brody, Berg, 2009, is a new publication aimed at those who want to understand the many complex roles of design, includ...
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Sollos: Shining Corona Highlights Home and Office
Technical expertise and a typical German, Bauhaus-inspired visual vocabulary are the trademarks of idee.design.licht. The Saxon lighting manufactory...
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Rough Construction Chair by Kassen
Rough Construction Chair started off as a kind of exploration that turned into a pretty nice little chair and stool. Like most things in the lumber yard, steel fra...
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2nd Round for 2nd Floor: Duravit Offers New Possibilities for Room Division
Duravit launched the 2nd floor collection, designed in collaboration with Sieger Design, in 2006. Inspired by the architec...
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Design, Complexity, and Change: DMI Design / Management Annual 34
In the midst of widespread turmoil, there are thought leaders and practitioners-in industry, government and academia-who are demonstrat...
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California Car Design: Local Style, Global Influence
At a time when the world's automakers are frantically trying to survive an economic downturn while simultaneously inventing new technologies to make...
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A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business
For the first time, Hartmut Esslinger, internationally acclaimed designer and founder of frog design, inc., reveals the secrets to ...
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Material ConneXion Presents I.D. Magazine's Annual Design Review Exhibition
New York-based global materials consultancy Material ConneXion announced that an exhibition of winners from I.D. magazine...
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Design and Society: Call for Change in Design Education
Design education is not keeping pace with the growing demand for new design professionals able to operate in a range of service-based environment...
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The Case for Export: New Design Victoria Publication
A new publication for Victorian designers, The Case for Export, developed by Design Victoria in collaboration with Austrade, Australian Institute of...
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Belgrade Design Week 2009: Speed2
From May 25th to 31st, Belgrade Design Week for the fourth time transformed Belgrade into a platform for world's design scene, an inspiring place for international cre...
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Banat Acrobat: The New Patented Toothbrush Designed by Kilit Tasi Design
Designed by Kilit Tasi Design Team under the leadership of Kunter Sekercioglu, the new Banat "Acrobat" toothbrush has...
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Buriki: Japanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American Automobile
This unique and charming exhibition, the first of its kind at any U.S. arts institution, charts the achievements of the Japanese...
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First Lady Michelle Obama Celebrates the National Design Awards with Public Programs
The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum today announced First Lady Michelle Obama will celebrate the...
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Design to Make Seoul a Global City
For Seoul City, design is leverage not only to upgrade its appearance but also innovate its administration. And Chung Kyung-won, the chief design officer...
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RCA Design Interactions Show 2009
Design Interactions Department's show at the Royal College of Art explores new roles, contexts and approaches for design in relation to the social, cultural and ethica...
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New AIGA Leadership Joins National Board of Directors: Debbie Millman Assumes Presidency
The newly elected board of directors for AIGA, the professional association for design, begins its term today. ...
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CLIO Healthcare Awards 2009
The first-ever CLIO Healthcare Awards is now accepting online entry submissions. The CLIO Healthcare Awards will honor creative excellence and innovation in advertising a...
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Colors of Money: an Exhibition About Money by Fabrica and Colors Magazine
Fabrica, the Benetton communication research center, has been invited by the cultural space CarreRotondes in Luxemburg to prese...
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The Outer Limits: Transport for London Poster Competition
Transport for London (TfL) is steeped in a history of innovative design which was built on the convictions of one man, Frank Pick whose energy ...
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Images 34: the Best of British Contemporary Illustration 2010
Images is the showcase for the best of contemporary British illustration. Now in its 34th year, Images is the only independent, jury-sel...
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David Droga to Deliver Seminar at Spikes Asia 2009
David Droga, the Founder and Creative Chairman of Droga5, will present a seminar at this year's Spikes Asia Festival. Regarded as one of the most s...
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TypeCon2009: Rhythm
TypeCon2009 explores type for the screen, Dutch design, type in motion, advertising typography, the new life of wood type, and much more. Special events include the premiere of "...
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Request for Submissions: The Good Design Book
Designer and writer Christopher Simmons (of MINE) is working on a new book about designing for the greater good. There is an open call for submissions t...
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Xin: Icograda World Design Congress Beijing 2009
Hosted by the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), the biennial Icograda World Design Congress will be held in Beijing, China for the first time. Fro...
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AIGA Nashville Gives Out Inaugural Awards
AIGA Nashville announced its inaugural class of winners for the CASE awards on Saturday. More than 125 awards were given for Web, motion, print, identity, i...
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David Gibson Announced as 2009 SEGD Fellow
The Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) announced David Gibson as the 2009 SEGD Fellow. Co-founder and managing principal of Two Twelve Associa...
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Bertrand Cesvet: IIDEX Announces 2009 Business Keynote
As one of the key strategists behind Cirque du Soleil's marketing machine, Bertrand Cesvet knows a thing or two about breaking barriers and mergin...
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Madeleine Vionnet: Puriste de la Mode
Les Arts Decoratifs is devoting a major exhibition to Madeleine Vionnet. In 1952, the couturiere donated 22 dresses, 750 dress patterns and 75 photo albums to L...
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Spotlight on Young Hong Kong Fashion Designers in Taiwan
The latest collections of six young Hong Kong fashion designers - Mandy Cheng, Chow Tan Tan, Spy Henry Lau, Hin Lee, DoDo Leung and Harrison Won...
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Harris Tweed Hebrides is Scotland's Textile Brand of the Year
Harris Tweed Hebrides has won recognition from fashion leaders for the style and quality of its famous fabric. The Company, based on the...
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White House Calls on AIGA Members to Promote Community Service
The White House and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have requested AIGA members' help in promoting public service opportunities ...
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Obama for America Campaign Wins Top Prizes in Cannes
The advertising and marketing campaign that helped propel Barack Obama into the White House has been honored with the two top prizes - the Titanium ...
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CB'a Design Solutions Designed the Packaging of Nirvana's Ice-cream
The European branding and design network CB'a Design Solutions created the naming, branding and packaging design for the innovative r...
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Talking Design: Design and Progressive Change
The Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) Queensland is hosting a Talking Design Public Lecture supported by the Queensland Government through Arts ...
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Designfest 2009
The third edition of the International Design Festival, Designfest '09, will be held in Expo Guadalajara from the 15th to the 17th of October 2009. This event will gather prominent p...
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PULSE Issue 7
The newest issue of PULSE is now available. In this issue, PDT talks about change: the discovery of change, including a few suggestions that can help you expand your "lifesphere", and ...
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The Red Dot Design Yearbook 2009/2010
Once again, the award-winning products from the red dot design award are presented this year in a two-volume book set - entitled "living" and "doing". The "livi...
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Design and Technology Teams Win National Challenge to Design Crime Proof Mobile Phones
Design and technology experts attend the Mobile Phone Security Challenge networking event, held at the Design Coun...
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Coventry University' Budding Car Designers Given Ultimate Teaching Aid
When Universities talk about the use of teaching aids to assist with students' studies, they do not usually include a brand new ca...
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Make It Right Architects Introduce Pioneering Duplex Designs
The green, affordable multi-family home designs of fourteen acclaimed local, national and international architects were released today by Ma...
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Harry Rich: New RIBA Chief Executive
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has appointed Harry Rich as its new Chief Executive. He will take up his new post in October 2009. Harry join...
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Remembering Jan Kaplicky: Architect of the Future
Jan Kaplicky, who died earlier this year aged 71, was the Czech architect responsible for some of the most remarkable buildings that Britain has ever s...
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Herning Museum of Contemporary Art Designed by Steven Holl Architects
Herning Museum of Contemporary Art will open to the public on September 9, 2009 uniting three distinct cultural institutions: the H...
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XERO Project Wins Re:Vision Design Competition for Zero-Energy Development in Downtown Dallas
XERO Project, a proposal for a new urban agriculture district and zero-energy, mixed-use development in dow...
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LandWorks Professional Center: A New and Better Idea for Real Estate
Most people know that poor air circulation and insufficient light- levels in the office can lead to chronic fatigue. But the trad...
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IGCC: Safe and Sustainable by the Book
The International Code Council launched its International Green Construction Code (IGCC) initiative, which will reduce energy usage and the carbon footprint of co...
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Marmol Radziner Prefab Teams Up with Dwell Magazine's Dwell Homes Collection
A new partnership between award-winning architects Marmol Radziner Prefab and Dwell magazine, has spawned a dynamic series o...
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Are We Building for the Development of Greed or for Generosity?
Designboost released the six last Miniboost interviews which incude Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec, James Irvine, Kristina Dryza, Patricia Ur...
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Bishop Edward King Chapel: Shortlist Announced
The competition to design a new College Chapel in Oxfordshire received an outstanding response with over 126 expressions of interest received from archite...
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RIBA Trust Presents Exhibition on Valerio Olgiati
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced an exhibition celebrating Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati, examining seven of his projects f...
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Cepezed Envisions Modern Colosseum
The Delft, The Netherlands-based cepezed architects have developed plans for a large temporary theatre on the Malieveld in The Hague, a large strech of lawn measuring...
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Dexigner iPhone Application Now Available on Apple App Store
Dexigner released the new Dexigner app for iPhone and iPod touch, an ideal companion for designers and design lovers. The application giv...
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DUCK's Jan Chen Creates Surreal Short Promoting Real Protection
DUCK Director Jan Chen just released a zany animated short featuring a communal home of anthropomorphic condoms promoting safe sex as a u...
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Purple Hunt: Tronic Studio Gives Pixels Life for Yahoo Philippines
A tiny 3D purple pixel appears at the far edge of vision, then tumbles maniacally toward the viewer while issuing a Yahoo- esque yodel...
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Award-Winning Director Marc Forster Teams With James Nelson On New Swiss Air Film
Flying - or modern day travel via air - evokes a variety of images but certainly rarely as beautiful or sublime as what...
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21Boom Creates Show Open, Title Design for MTV's It's On With Alexa Chung
MTV has tapped 21Boom, the Manhattan-based creative and marketing services shop, to design and produce a show open and complete...
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Nathan Love Creates Blood Trail
Creative studio Nathan Love recently completed "Blood Trail," a three-minute animated trailer that promotes writer Matt Cochran's screenplay of the same name. Perspec...
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Animation: Exhibition Explores Six Areas of Animation
Animation is an exhibit about the science behind the art of animation. Visitors explore the process of animation from concept to finished produc...
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Back Alley Films' Pete Meyer Directs Spot for Water Partners International
Spoofing the chic, sophisticated marketing of bottled water in the US, non-profit Water Partners International has unveiled a ...
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Director Tarsem Teams Up with Zoic Studios to Converge Fantasy and Reality
The Mountain Dew / World of Warcraft cross-promotional spot brought together some all-star players to handle these iconic bran...
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Blurb Introduces PDF to Book: Delivering New Levels of Creative Control
Blurb, the creative publishing and marketing platform that enables anyone to design, publish, share and sell bookstore-quality bo...
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Blind Inks UK/Europe Deal with Jelly
Bicoastal production/design studio Blind expands across the Atlantic with new representation by multidisciplinary production collective jelly, London. The newly ...
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Festival of Lively Architecture 2009 in Montpellier
The 4th Festival of Lively Architecture organized by Association Champ Libre, took place in Montpellier from June 18th-21st 2009. Architects from ...
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African Elegance: Renowned Artist Tunde Owolabi Brings African Elegance to London
Songhai Creative presents African artist Tunde Owolabi's "African Elegance" the first major exhibition of new paintings...
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The Rediscovery of Sretenkas
This exhibition features the architectural development for the urban district of the Moscow quarter "Sretenka". On the basis of the results of an urban study by Mosproje...
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L.A. in Wien / Wien in L.A.
The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) announced L.A. in Wien / Wien in L.A, an exhibition featuring works by Hitoshi Abe, Peter Cook, Zaha Hadid, Thom ...
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Buildings Seeking LEED to Provide Performance Data
As part of LEED v3, the latest version of the U.S. Green Building Council's program for green building design, construction, operations and maintenanc...
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Bennetts Associates' Potterrow Building: an Innovative Educational and Office Building
Bennetts Associates' award-winning Potterrow development has created an innovative learning environment for Edinbu...
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Winner of London School of Economics New Students' Centre Competition Announced
Dublin based practice O'Donnell & Tuomey Architects have been chosen as the winners of the competition to design a new St...
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Aesthetics of Crossing: Land Ports of Entry / Citizenship by Design
Van Alen Institute announced the upcoming exhibition Aesthetics of Crossing, on view at the Institute from Wednesday, July 1 - Friday...
**more**
Skidaway Institute of Oceanography Expands Scope of Research With New Building
Scientists at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography earlier this month occupied a new facility that enables them to expan...
**more**
Serie Platone by Prandina
Serie Platone is a new family of architectural wall lamps. An immediate and discrete illuminating object whose design in characterized by a light curve separating it...
**more**
Down to Earth Lighting
A team of industrial design students from Swinburne University have taken an invention from a concept to a finished product. Inventor Bradley Wein approached the students with...
**more**
Electrolux Wins Australian Award for Sustainable Design
The Electrolux 2008 refrigeration collection in Australia has won the 2009 Award for Excellence in Sustainable Design in Standards...
**more**
KeepCup: Hot Coffee, Cool Planet
Disposable paper cups are not recyclable. The paper cup is made from a composite of materials: kraft bleached paper sprayed with a polyethylene coating. Paper cups a...
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